Senior Systems Engineer IActive

Rocket Lab
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The opportunity

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.

What you'll do

  • Support the development of system architecture for space-based optical: instruments, subsystems, and payloads on airborne and space platforms, with emphasis on electrical architecture and controls integration

  • Define, decompose, and manage system requirements with focus on electrical: behavior, control functions, subsystem interactions, and overall system performance

  • Develop and maintain technical documentation including architecture: descriptions, interface control documents, electrical interface definitions, concepts of operations, state and mode descriptions, test plans, and verification artifacts

  • Support development of electrical and functional architectures, including: command and telemetry flow, power distribution, control logic, signal paths, timing, synchronization, and subsystem interaction

  • Collaborate with hardware, software, firmware, and test teams to ensure the: electrical architecture and controls implementation align with system requirements and mission intent

  • Support the development, integration, and testing of space payloads to be integrated on spacecraft platforms

What they're looking for

  • Support hardware and software development teams with system-level test: planning, debugging, integration, and execution of verification procedures; analyze data and recommend design refinements
  • Participate in hardware and software verification and validation activities: related to system behavior, electrical performance, controls implementation, and interface compliance
  • Support architecture trades involving sensors, motor control, embedded: electronics, power systems, command and data handling, and subsystem interfaces
  • Participate in technical interchange meetings and project discussions with: internal teams, customers, and external partners as needed